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    Printcrime
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    Printcrime

    By Cory Doctorow

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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    Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual; Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, non-fiction about monopoly and creative labour markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

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      Printcrime - Cory Doctorow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Printcrime, by Cory Doctorow

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      Title: Printcrime

      Author: Cory Doctorow

      Release Date: April 24, 2006 [eBook #19000]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      Last updated: January 19, 2009

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      Copyright (C) 2006 by Cory Doctorow.

      Printcrime

      (originally published in Nature Magazine, January 2006)

      Cory Doctorow

      The coppers smashed my father's printer when I was eight. I remember the hot, cling-film-in-a-microwave smell of it, and Da's look of ferocious concentration as he filled it with fresh goop, and the warm, fresh-baked feel of the objects that came out of it.

      The coppers came through the door with truncheons swinging, one of them reciting the terms of the warrant through a bullhorn. One of Da's customers had shopped him. The ipolice paid in high-grade pharmaceuticals — performance enhancers, memory supplements, metabolic

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